Bracelet.



H. WIEDMANN. I

BRACELET.

APiLlCATlON FILED Aue.2. 19H

1,149,070, Patented June 8, 1915.

WITNESSES INVENTOR THE NORRIS PETERS CO.. FHOTO'LITHOH WASHINGTON. D. C.

HENRY WIEDMANN, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BRACELET.

Application filed August 2, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY WIEDMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bracelets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to articles of personal adornment, known as bracelets, an exceedingly popular form of which is the seemingly unbroken or endless band or ring of precious metal. If this band or ring is of suitable size, it is obvious that provision must be made for getting it on and off the arm or wrist of the user, and, with this end in view, the ring is usually segmental, the two parts being hinged at one end and provided with a suitable clasp at the other. These rings or bands are generally hollow or tubular, and to prevent loss of the article while being worn, through the accidental unclasping of the parts (and for other reasons), it is desirable that a guard be provided, completely incased in the tube when the bracelet is closed and limiting separation of the parts and bridging the gap therebetween when the bracelet is opened.

The object, inter aZz'a, of this invention is to provide a two-part, hinged bracelet with simple and practical means for limiting the arc of movement thereof when opened, so that undue strain, tending to break the hinge, may not be exerted by the user, said means also tending to prevent dropping of the bracelet by the wearer in removing the same from her wrist, or loss of the bracelet while being worn through the accidental unclasping of the parts.

With this object in view, and others appearing as the specification proceeds, the invention resides in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts of a bracelet, as will be hereinafter fully described in the specification, summed up in the claim, and illustrated in the drawing, in which:

Figure I is a central, longitudinal sectional view of a bracelet, in open position, equipped with my improvements; Fig. II is a fragmentary, partly sectional view of the bracelet and'the guard, the bracelet being shown in open position. Fig. III is a fragmentary detail view, in horizontal section, of the top portion of the bracelet, showing the two segmental parts or members Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 8, 1915.

Serial No. 641,970.

thereof closed, the guard being shown in top plan,partly in section. 1

Referring, now, in detail to the drawing: 1 and 2 designate the two segmental portions of the bracelet, consisting of curved tubes, preferably closed at both ends, as shown, and provided, at adjacent ends, with a hinge-connection 8. In the opposite end of the tube 1 is secured the end of a guard 4, preferably of metal and formed, as shown, in the shape of a tongue. The end thereof which is secured to the end of the tube 1 is bifurcated, as shown, said bifurcation being formed by a V-shaped, longitudinal recess 5 in said end of the guard. The two forks or legs 6 and 7 of said bifurcated end pass through an aperture 8 in the end of the tube 1, and the end of the fork 6 is secured permanently to the end of said tube 1 by any suitable means, as by solder. The other leg 7 is provided with a lateral ofiset 9, which projects through an aperture 10 in the side of the tube 1, near the end thereof, and is desirably roughened, as at 11, on the, end thereof, so as to present a gripping surface. The fork or leg 7 is also provided exteriorly of the tube 1, but in juxtaposition to the end thereof, with a notch 12.

The end of the guard 4 opposite the forks 6 and 7 passes through an opening 13 in the end wall 15 of the tube 2, and is provided with a bent lug 14, which,' when the bracelet is opened, engages the interior surface of the end wall 15, preventing entire withdrawal and separation of the guard 4 from the tube 2.

As shown, the guard 4 is, for the greater portion of its length, of less width than the remaining portion. Said remaining portion, which is of greater width, comprises the legs 6 and 7 whereby, in closing the bracelet from the open position thereof shown in Fig.1 to the closed position there of shown in Fig. II. the leg 7, when it strikes the opening 13 in the wall 15, will be gradually forced toward the leg 6, until the notch 12 is in vertical alinement with the wall 15, when said leg 7 springs away from the leg 6, while wall 15 in the region of the opening 13 catches or seats in the notch 12, thus locking the bracelet in closed position. When it is desired to open the bracelet, to remove the same from the wrist of the wearer, she presses with her finger upon the surface 11 of the offset 9, whereupon the.

notch 12 rides out of engagement with the wall 15, and the tube2 may then be swung away from the tube 1, as shown in Fig. I.

Necessarily, of course, the guard 4 is constructed of spring metal or material, so as to have both flexibility'and elasticity, as its curvature is subject to constant change as the bracelet is opened andclosed.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: r

A bracelet comprising two tubular sections hinged together at one end and having, at the other end, aperrtured, transverse walls; and a guard, comprising a one piece laterally rigid tongue longitudinally reciprocable, at one end, through the opening in one of said transverse walls, and provided, at said end, with a hook engageable with the inner surface of said transverse wall when the bracelet is in open position, said'tongue its other end projected through the opening in the other transverse wall, said ing permanently secured to the bracelet-section into which it extends, and the other of said legs being provided with a notch ennesses. V

HENRY WIEDMANN. Witnesses: 7

PETER L. Gnnow, JAS. A. TELFER.

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a other end ofthe tongue'having a V-shaped a recess, forming two legs, one of said legs be- 

